Hacker News: prash_ant

New comment by prash_ant in "Toxicity in Open Source Discussions"

prash_ant — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 04:28:37 +0000

I hope this method catches on.

New comment by prash_ant in "Jabber.org, the original XMPP IM service will migrate this weekend to Prosody IM"

prash_ant — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:22:00 +0000

Wow.

What are they running currently / before this migration?

New comment by prash_ant in "Waze tests new alerts warning drivers about roads with a ‘history of crashes’"

prash_ant — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 23:59:59 +0000

Would there be such a curated list available, to begin with, including value by year?

New comment by prash_ant in "GNU Health, the Libre digital health ecosystem"

prash_ant — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 22:25:47 +0000

I thought this was always intended for a hospital. I never knew that have a personal health record as well. Thanks for sharing the link.

https://www.gnuhealth.org/docs/mygnuhealth/#the-health-track...

New comment by prash_ant in "Moving the Ctrl Key"

prash_ant — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 21:34:39 +0000

Are you saying you moved it to the traditional left-Alt key?

That makes the key on the left of the spacebar as Ctrl and the key on the right of the spacebar as Alt. This is much better, in my opinion, than using the pinky on the Capslock.

New comment by prash_ant in "Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual paywall"

prash_ant — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 16:21:59 +0000

Yep, Discussions are here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33277445

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33325026

New comment by prash_ant in "The slow death of the traditional business card"

prash_ant — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 18:21:25 +0000

Yes, overkill. But it makes headlines.

New comment by prash_ant in "Ask HN: Who has ditched their phone and what is your replacement?"

prash_ant — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:01:09 +0000

I am interested in knowing more about your fancy business landline phone.

New comment by prash_ant in "Math on GitHub: Following Up"

prash_ant — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:43:17 +0000

The `$...$' and `$$...$$' delimiters are used in TeX. LaTeX uses the more superior delimiter as `$...$' and `\[...\]'.

All the MathJax and KaTeX related markdown for math should use the LaTeX delimiters and avoid the TeX delimiters.

For more info see https://docs.mathjax.org/en/v2.5-latest/tex.html#tex-and-lat...

New comment by prash_ant in "Valve’s Steam Deck makes a brilliant case against walled gardens"

prash_ant — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 23:28:22 +0000

They may be bought by someone bigger and then shutdown to protect the existing wild gardens. There are many analogies. Astrid[0][1] and Wunderlist[2] come to my mind.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_(application)

[1] https://github.com/tasks/tasks

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderlist

New comment by prash_ant in "The case for unique email addresses (2020)"

prash_ant — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 18:42:45 +0000

Yes, but the fraction of users using the +company part would be similar to the fraction of linux desktop users on the internet.

The way we don't see most software companies supporting linux desktop users simply because it is not profitable, we can hypothesize that the spammers won't spend time-energy-money on getting the +company filtered out.

New comment by prash_ant in "Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier"

prash_ant — Mon, 20 Jun 2022 18:37:29 +0000

We should appreciate the diversity of the 7,903,275,000 people in the world. Everyone single one of us has different opinions, ideas, abilities and interests.

New comment by prash_ant in "Ask HN: What news subscription is worth it?"

prash_ant — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 16:58:54 +0000

Subscription to your regional or local newspaper will help you connect more with your community. We have so many wonderful regional newspapers. You can choose from your region.

  - Los Angeles Times
  - Chicago Tribune
  - The Boston Globe
  - San Francisco Chronicle
  - Miami Herald
  - Dallas Observer
  - Houston Chronicle
  - Denver Post
  - Star Tribune

New comment by prash_ant in "Plain Text Calendar"

prash_ant — Tue, 31 May 2022 21:42:21 +0000

Emacs users, you have the built-in diary which also integrates with org-agenda. It's perfect for recurring events like birthdays, bills and also provides reminder.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Fo...

New comment by prash_ant in "Poll: How are you doing currently?"

prash_ant — Fri, 27 May 2022 18:42:53 +0000

Your timing matches with the winter "seasonal affective disorder", where you felt depressive at the peak of winter and became better in spring.

New comment by prash_ant in "Ask HN: Which discontinued app or tool would you still like to use today?"

prash_ant — Thu, 26 May 2022 21:13:33 +0000

I can imagine the costs of supporting users and data sync over web, desktop apps, mobile apps on all platforms. Wunderlist had paid accounts which allowed more themes, but I remember most of the other features were on-par with free accounts.

Other list apps have become more of a todo list app. Wunderlist encouraged all kinds of lists. - movies to watch. - packing list for weekend trip. - shopping list. - yardsale items.

New comment by prash_ant in "Ask HN: Why XMPP failed and SMTP didn't?"

prash_ant — Thu, 26 May 2022 18:27:09 +0000

Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9266769

New comment by prash_ant in "Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules"

prash_ant — Thu, 12 May 2022 02:34:02 +0000

There have been reports earlier [1] that processing power of some GPUs is suppressed by software rather than the hardware capability itself. It is frequently easier to mass produce similar chips than to have different chips for different priced devices. I had come across comments in other online forums where the users alleged that some software flags restrict the capability. I hope someone else will link those webpages if they come across them

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-gpu-system-processo...

New comment by prash_ant in "I unwillingly stopped using Firefox"

prash_ant — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 08:03:21 +0000

Did Firefox prevent you from login to your work account, or was your work web-software configured to work only on Chrome?

New comment by prash_ant in "I won an award from the FSF for my contributions to Emacs"

prash_ant — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 07:34:13 +0000

Prot is one of those contributors who has made his contributions accessible in the form of videos, tutorials, blogs, and other documentation. As far as I know, he's not contributing to the Emacs internals and instead providing packages, he has given most of his code to be part of GNU. I came across his work on modus-themes and understood from his documentation that he's done a lot of research in making it compliant to accessibility standards of WCAG AAA. This theme is going to be bundled with the next stable release of Emacs 28 when it comes.

One can truly see his journey in contributing to free software, including philosophy, documented in his videos. Congratulations Prot.